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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revive ...Show more
English Journeys: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West
11.95 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: English Journeys
In this unique gardening chronicle Vita Sackville-West weaves together simple, honest accounts of her horticultural experiences throughout the year with exquisite writing and poetic description. Whether singing the praises of sweet-briar, cyclamen, Indian pinks and the Strawberry grape, or giving practi ...Show more
Faces: Profiles of Dogs by Vita Sackville-West
22.99 NZD
Category: Pets
A collection of photographs of 44 breeds of dogs that capture them in particular & very individual moods. 'How very odd it must be to be a dog...'Over the years Vita Sackville-West had many dogs, including Cocker Spaniel Pippin (famously the mother of Virginia Woolf's Spaniel, Pinka), Alsatian Roll ...Show more
Vita Sackville-West: A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West; Kate Baylay
35.00 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. ...Show more
Vita Sackville West's Sissinghurst: The creation of a Garden by Vita Sackville-West & Sarah Raven
70.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: near fine
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions ...Show more
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